>> if you spent time in europe and go to the battlefield, you'll find stuff, bullet casings. a big bomb would be shocking to discover. >> yeah. be careful with that. thanks for joining us. >> ed henry in for shep. >> shepard: it's 3:00 p.m. at the u.n., noon on the west coast. american officials making it clear they're fed up in north korea. >> i have to say enough is enough. >> new today, signs north korea is not backing down. there's word they're prepping another missile test. president trump apparently set to decide the future of so-called dreamers. immigrants that entered the country as dreamers. and a monster hurricane expected to get stronger and could target our country's east coast.

that's ahead this hour. i'm ed henry in for shepard smith. north korean dictator kim jong-un is begging for war. that's what the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said today after north korea conducted their sixth and most powerful nuclear test yesterday. officials are warning that kim jong-un may be preparing to test yet another missile. possibly one that could reach the united states mainland. nikki haley told the u.n. security council members in an emergency meeting enough is enough. >> war is never something the united states wants. we don't want it now. but our country's patience is not unlimited. we will defend our allies and our territory. >> meanwhile, officials in pyongyang claim they tested a hydrogen bomb that they could put on an intercontinental ballistic missile. scientists here in the u.s. say they estimated the blast to be

several times stronger than the atomic bombs the u.s. dropped on japan in world war ii. jennifer griffin live in washington. this sharp statement by ambassador haley, you think back to the blunt remarks by secretary mattis, seems to me it's been a remarkable 24 hours. >> absolutely remarkable. the only military response that we've seen is from south creek, which carried out a live fire exercise simulating an attack on the north korean nuclear site. there's been a drill with f-35 fighter jets. a bomb loaded as a slammer being loaded on the f-15. slammer stands for stand off land attack response missile. south korea fired missiles in

the sea of japan at a distance expected to be the nuclear site in north korea. none of these tests have had the impact of the north korean leader. two days before north korea conducted the latest tests, the u.s., south korea and japan carried out a ten-hour drill using b-1 bombers and f-35 stealth bombers for the first time. kim is not scared by these drills. he uses the u.s.-south korean drills to convince his people that the u.s. and south korea are preparing an invasion to overthrow his regime. that's why you heard defense secretary mattis say that the u.s. is not looking to annihilate the regime, but has military options prepared if kim threatens the u.s. homeland or guam. the choice of mattis to deliver the message standing alongside general joe dunford, the chairman of the general chief that would have to resource any military response and was also designed to send a message, ed.

>> there's been defense secretary after defense secretary in democratic and republican administrations that say all options are on the table. in this case, how likely does it seem this is more serious than the typical all options are on the table? >> there's been accelerated planning in the last few months. i know that from sources at the pentagon who are involved in the planning. it is certainly something that no one with any knowledge of the military options wants to have to execute. i can tell you the pentagon has opinion planning for real options. most of which you may not see. cyber attack or subterrainian efforts to neutralize his missile program. boots on the ground would require special operators with unique capabilities. i'm told the u.s. military planners are well aware that once the u.s. crossed the 38th

parallel, north korea could launch 800,000 artillery rockets at seoul within four minutes. potentially devastating seoul, which is 35 miles from the northern border. in june, there were two u.s. navy aircraft carrier strike groups off the korean peninsula. today there's none. the u.s.s. ronald reagan is in port in japan. the u.s. has 80,000 troops in south korea and japan. it's down two navy destroyers after the u.s.s. mccain and fitzgerald had accidents. they had important missile defense technology on board. ed? >> i know you mentioned at the top that south korea went through with this military exercise today. axios reporting that the u.s. could be joining south korea and other allies in the days ahead. what do you think are some of the steps we may see? >> the u.s. and south korea have

carried out ten days of intense military exercises the last two weeks. it did not deter kim. the south korean government says they see signs that kim jong-un isn't satisfied with his latest nuclear test, but is also planning another ballistic missile test. possibly an intercontinental ballistic missile to coincide this saturday with founder's day, north korean independent day. it's no co incident that kim jong-un chooses anniversaries and holidays to carry out the tests that i have great symbolic value to the north korean regime. >> thanks, jennifer. more now on today's emergency u.n. security council meeting. bryan llenas is live outside the u.n. first. bryan? >> look, ed, the u.s. ambassador nikki haley urged the u.n. security council that the time for half measures is over. she urged the council to negotiate the toughest sanctions against north korea in time for a vote on monday. >> only the strongest sanctions

will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy. we have kicked the can down the road long enough. there's no more road left. >> the u.n. had adopted the toughest sanctions yet against north korea less than a month ago costing north korea about a billion dollars in trade exports. one of the options on the table is targeting north korea's oil and textile industries. the question is, how far will china and russia go. both say they're for more negotiations, not more sanctions. >> whatever measures we are implementing now, i'm not sure that they will influence the other sides to abandon what they have been doing. this is not the way to get parties at the table, which we seek for a political solution.

>> president trump said that the u.s. is willing to act alone stopping trade with countries that continue to trade with north korea, including china. ed? >> bryan llenas at the u.n. thank you. let's bring in a.b. stoddard, associated editor from real clear politics. good to see you. >> good to see you, ed. >> i've had people say the media is drumming this up. every summer, kim jong-un gets out there either says outlandish things or test as missile. this time it feels different. >> oh, no, i think there's no argument here with the fact that this kind of capability threshold that they've been able to move past just makes this a brand new ball game. these are more powerful detonation of a bomb than we saw in hiroshina and nagasaki. this is a new level of threat.

it's undeniable. you've seen in the words of the u.n. ambassador today that they're really in a state of alarm about how many options we have left with diplomacy and whether or not we have to use a military response. >> talk about the political stakes. we talked about the diplomatic stakes. as you say, not really necessary any good military options because what could happen in seoul if we were to launch a unilateral strike about north korea, pyongyang. talk about the political stakes for president trump. someone that democrats have been accusing him to be a commander-in-chief not up to the job. they laughed off his comments of fire and fury. defense secretary mattis was calm and cool and saying look, we don't want to annihilate you, but we can do it if we want to, if we have to. >> that was a firm message. it was designed to basically tell people that the preemptive

strike that we've been hearing rumors about is off the table that would require consent of congress. i don't think we can expect that. i don't think we'll rain fire and fury down if he just makes verbal threats. if there's a missile headed towards guam, there's going to be a response from the u.s. government. they made that clear. i don't think you heard the president that if this goes quiet, the north koreans respect us. the problem also, ed, with the new threat about cutting off trade with anyone that helps north korea, which is not only the chinese, but the germans, saudi arabia, brazil, india, on and on, is that it would be terrible for us and it's actually a nonstarter. so you're hearing a lot of quiet from members of congress. there's a way to target chinese banks and other interests. but a flat-out stoppage of trade with china is obviously a nonstarter. so politically, that will be

rough for him in the days to come. congress comes back and they won't be on board with that. >> something that they can boomerang on. at the top you talked about the threshold and how it seems they're reaching a threshold. that's is what is so alarming about, this reminds me of the talk with iran. the possibility of them getting to the point of no return where they have a capability where you're waiting perhaps defenseless, perhaps not for them to make the next move. are we reaching closer to the same kind of stage with north korea? >> i do. i think if you look at the timing that they design their missile tests for, they're almost to also provoke president xi and the u.s. i think what they realized from the experience of the chinese and the iranians, if you have a shrewd efficient program, you can get your nuclear status and people will back down. that's what i think kim jong-un is betting on. >> stakes couldn't be higher.

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a chemical plant in crosby, texas. about 20 miles northeast of houston. yesterday officials carried out a controlled explosion at that plant to try to prevent more fires after one broke out last week. now the feds say their concerned about possible toxic waste leaking from sewers because of the flooding. officials say the storm has killed 44 people. steve harrigan has been there from the beginning. he's live in con row, texas about 40 miles north of houston. what are you seeing today, steve? >> if you take a look down the street, it's the same scene. house after house. giant piles of what is now debris six or seven feet high. the water got in the houses so the frames are still intact. the destruction is near total. everything in the house had to be pulled out, ruined. this is as ian skeleton said the toughest thing to pull was were the carpets. what was that like? >> it was tough. had been sitting in water for

four or five days. it was all still in the carpet. cutting it in small sections. wheel barrowing them out. getting two and three people on them. dumping gallons of water on you. didn't matter what you were wearing, waders and boots, you got nasty. >> it's tough work but you've been getting a lot of help. who is coming to help? >> everybody. best way to describe it. we've got a massive outpouring here from the people we know. friends, family. they're from all over the country. we had a gentleman here, jason, flew down from philly on his own dime, philadelphia. he needed to help. he came down here and he was out here sweating, pulling down my fence, tossing junk all day. we have people from every state, probably different countries i'd imagine. >> complete strangers here

helping you pull out sogging carpets. people have offered food and clothing while we've been here. the question are things getting better? five days ago, there was water seven feet high. now it's dry. things are getting better here north of houston. ed, back to you. >> ed: appreciate the reporting. while texas cleans up, relief workers prepping for the next potential disaster, a powerful hurricane on the move in the atlantic. forecasters warn it could take aim straight at the east coast. the latest storm track from the extreme weather center next. i count on my dell small business advisor for tech advice. with one phone call, i get products that suit my needs and i get back to business. ♪

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way. our models are in agreement how it works across the islands, running north of puerto rico and north of cuba. this goes until friday evening and some models showing saturday morning. we have a long time until it gets off the florida coast. right here is where it's interesting. all of a sudden it's difficult to forecast. you can see the motion and how it runs into the gulf of mexico. that is not what we're seeing and it's all because of steering winds. we have a big high pressure system that has been forcing this and pushing this further and further south, a lot of times a hurricane in this area will turn and go back out to side. eventually as it gets closer, upper level winds look as it will drag it up the east coast. if we're lucky it turns and misses everything. i'm not so sure that will happen. we'll have to pay attention to florida as it gets closer. that's going to a big one there,

ed. so this is something that we'll pay close attention to. >> ed: adam that could be good enough for the gulf there were records it could help there. it's looking like that may not be the case. could be difficult for florida and up the east coast. how is this different than hurricane harvey? what are we seeing early on? >> yeah, this is a big difference here. the story is this is moving so much quicker. yes, it's a powerful hurricane and yes, where it does make landfall we could see a foot of precipitation. hurricane harvey spun there and didn't move. notice how briefly this stayed there. the good news, it will move out and we won't talk about 40 or 50 inches of rain like in houston. >> ed: thanks, adam. president trump about to announce his big decision on the dreamers. kids whose parents welcomed into

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>> ed: president trump likely to announce tomorrow head ending the daca program with a catch, a six-month delay. that's what sources familiar with the decision tell fox. the obama administration created daca by executive order in 2012. it protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants whose parents brought them into the country illegally as kids. that's why they're known as dreamers. the program prevents them to get deported and provides them with permits to work in the u.s. legally. you have to prove you arrived here before you were 16, been in the country for several years and not committed a crime while

here in the u.s. during his campaign, the president trammed daca as illegal amnesty and promised to get rid of it. paul ryan said congress should make the decision. kevin corke has more. what do you know? >> you're on the money as far as the break down there. promises made, promises kept. that's what the white house will tell you. keep in mind, daca was begun by executive order by president obama. the idea is that look, this is something that should be managed legislatively. thus the six-month delay with the idea that congress will eventually step in and do something before time expires on the dreamers. you're talking about people that are for all intents and purposes american. nearly 800,000 dreamers under threat say some democrats.

dreamers are members of our communities and the places we work, this is from the dreamer's website. we are a stronger country because of them. stand up to protect them. the white house says the president is determined to end a program that is unfair to americans. by the way, unfair to immigrants that follow the rules to be here. how will he do it? pressure and time. pressure because six months from now, you're talking about mid of the 2018 election cycle. nobody wants it hanging around and time being the island that the six months will give congress a chance to hammer it out regardless of party lines. we'll see if that will happen sometime tomorrow, ed. >> ed: thanks, kevin. appreciate it. some republican lawmakers pushing back against the president's plan with the six-month delay. he's facing criticism for ending the program and for also delaying it. rich edson live in washington with reaction from capitol hill. seems to be strong opposition in

congress and both parties for ending daybreak. >> right. especially among democrats. they've called the consequences of ending the program disastrous. chris murphy from connecticut said your moment has come. show the courage and grace to save these children and our nation. paul ryan said he opposed the creation of daca as unconstitutional, but he's against president trump ending it without congress devising a solution. lindsey graham, another republican said i have always believed daca was a presidential overreach. but i equally understand the plight of the dream act kids for who all practical purposes no know other country than america. other republicans when with hurricane harvey relief, the debt ceiling and tax reform will congress address immigration. >> we have all of these promises that are unfulfilled that i think moving on to something that is controversial that a lot

of republicans didn't run on would be a mistake. >> some are pushing for a narrower legislation. >> ed: rich, you mentioned various pressures on congress to juggle all kinds of things, relief for texas on top of this. you have the pressure from ten or so state attorneys general that want action. will they take the whole daca situation to federal court? congress could still fail to get this done in six months. >> it could. there is opposition, significant opposition among republicans. they say it encourages others to illegally bring their children to the united states. steve king said ending daca now gives us a chance to restore rule of law. delaying is republican suicide. others say the president ran on enforcing immigration laws. >> the president should do what he campaigned on. lock down that border, get rid

of the rewards and insentives and do reject amnesty. >> it appears this is another issue congress will have to address when it returns this weekend. >> rich, i appreciate the reporting. let's bring in sarah and democratic senator robert is here. robin, i want to start with you. i saw that tweet that was in there from chris murphy, democratic senator who is saying we have to help these kids. why won't president trump help these kids? if they want to help the dreamers why don't they follow the constitution and write a law and get it passed? >> i agree with you. we have -- this isn't a perfect bill. really, a lot of reforms that we could do. scrapping this is really going to play more into the hands of the democrats because these commercials will write themselves. speaking as a strategist, this -- we can appeal to

conservatives by saying there was a fox news story out today that said itself this is going to cost our economy $3.4 billion because of the loss of 700,000 employed people being deported. so that's going to appeal to conservatives. then you have the gripping stories like we saw today from the houston chronicle that showed someone on daca that was saving flood victims and he died. so -- >> ed: robin, i'm not denies what you're saying. i'm agree with you there's heart-gripping stories. but if you care about the kids, you still haven't answered the question. where are the democrats saying we're going to pass a law to protect these kids? contrary to what you said, the president -- we still don't have his final statement. we'll see it tomorrow. but he seems to be saying yes, i'm going to end daca but i'm going to give you six months to fix it and codify it by law. he's not really throwing the kids out. >> right.

this was a law put by executive order in 2012. i need my party to step up and make some improvements to this. it's not perfect. >> ed: okay. so your party needs to step up. sarah, i want to press you as well. is this a chance for the president to step up? he's been talking about how he would shut down the government or getting funding for the wall. is there some way -- i know it's complicated dealing with the dreamers but to roll in finding to deal with the illegal immigration and move on? roll it in here some way and have a grand compromise? >> i think that would be a tough sell, ed, if we were looking at bipartisan support. i think the way to go right now, what he's doing is giving congress six months to make something happen. i know that lindsey graham and senator durbin have a bill right now called the dream act.

they've been working hard on. it was introduced in july. if you attach a wall to the solution to legislate daca, you'll run into an issue. so i think you do one thing at a time. i'd say i agree with you. the comprehensive immigration reform should have happened. should have happened under bush. the talk of the wall is so difficult, take the rhetoric up so high that it would make it difficult to have a bipartisan solution passed. >> on that point and i'll go back to rob and sarah. some of the president's advisers have told me that the pardon of joe arpaio may have been part of this. some people in his base may not have been happy. he's been so strong on arpaio that maybe there's wiggle room here. what do you think about that? >> there's wiggle room here and

he needs it. >> he's got to look ahead. speaking of someone in politics and as a strategist, he has to look ahead. he's looking at the largest growing number of population right now the hispanic community. the republican party can't afford to alienate them right now. so yes, he's got to look ahead, look at the mid-terms and 2020. so yes, there's room -- there's wiggle room here. >> ed: sarah -- >> i want to point out that there's his base. but yous will have over 300 evangelical pastors sending a letter to the president and congress saying i can't preserve daca, please preserve daca. then you had over 350 business leaders, ceos from amazon to facebook to the arizona chamber of commerce to the colorado business roundtable, ceos everywhere saying please watch what -- please think about this. so you have your base but then you have other americans and conservative americans.

your pastors, evangelicals saying here let's think about this. >> ed: seems like an opportunity for both parties. we'll see if they take it or mess it up again. sometimes they have a habit of doing that. good to see you both. sarah and robin. lawmakers have more urgent business to tackle. like keeping the government running and raising the debt ceiling. there's a new battle brewing on top of that and hurricane harvey victims could be caught in the middle. we'll talk about it coming up next. ♪ the sun'll come out tomorrow... ♪ for people with heart failure, tomorrow is not a given. but entresto is a medicine that helps make more tomorrows possible. ♪ tomorrow, tomorrow... ♪ i love ya, tomorrow in the largest heart failure study ever, entresto helped more people stay alive and out of the hospital than a leading heart failure medicine. women who are pregnant must not take entresto. it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor

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are the democrats -- seems like there's little bipartisanship so far. are democrats ready to work with the president, work with republican leaders to get some of these important measures across the finish line? >> yes, ed. without question. nancy pelosi, our minority leader said in march that we were. and now the republicans, the white house said, that they're ready, but kind of tired of them hitting themselves with the olive branches. i want action. we have to get action for the american people rather than talk. we have to come together. people are tired of the obstruction. we had it from the republicans for seven years and now the democrats being the party of resistance. we have to get real reform together. >> ed: sarah, that sounds interesting but will you buy that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi will come together on hurricane harvey and keeping the government open and more.

we still have the dreamers. virtually no bipartisanship yet. >> i think hurricane harvey and tying to it the debt relief, we'll see that happen. nancy pelosi and senator schumer have said today that they would support that. i think republicans will as well. there's some fiscal conservatives having a little heart ache over it. when it comes to this one and the hurricane relief package, this is about people and helping people. it's a calamitous time down there. something gets done there. but i need to take this back to congressional republicans. we failed to do anything with healthcare after seven years of complaining. we failed to execute. the onus is on congressional republicans regardless if the democrats are there to get something done with respect to the tax cut or the tax reform package that could couple down the line that the president is pushing for by the end of the year, this is political suicide for them right now.

they can't win their races in 2018 if they have done nothing legislatively. the onus is on the republicans. >> ed: robin, when sarah sends that, do you think that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi want to watch the republicans not get any of this done? if they can't get tax cuts, if they can't get the repeal and replace of obamacare, which is stalled right now to say the least, if they can't get the other initiatives through, the dreamer issue, then chuck schumer and nancy pelosi putting out press releases saying they hurt the dreamers. isn't it in your interest to not get any of this stuff done? >> i hate to admit that but that is the reality but that hurts americans. nancy pelosi knows that. chuck schumer knows that. that's why they said they want to work across the aisle. i want to point out as far as the point lisa just made about healthcare, we were not invited

to the table to negotiate on that trump had a brunch where he invited all the republicans to discuss possible healthcare reforms. not one democrat was invited. now all of congress had to go back home with their tail between their legs. so now we have to work together to deliver reforms for americans. we stand ready to do that, ed. >> ed: sarah, the president has a meeting tomorrow and a meeting wednesday as well with democrats and republicans to robin's point. what is the challenge ahead for him? what kind of opportunity does he have as commander-in-chief to pull everyone together? >> so from what i understand, he's looking at a tax cut, which is a temporary fix. president trump was talking about a comprehensive tax form package. he simplified it to a tax cut.

senator mitch mcconnell and paul ryan are looking for a more comprehensive tax reform package. they're at odds here. it will be interesting to see what happens after tuesday and wednesday and see how far the president can get with this simply tax cut, which i understand which will be retroactive to january 2017. >> ed: i want to press you about republicans. you mentioned about the debt ceiling and what steve mnuchin said on fox news sunday yesterday about maybe we can tie this hurricane harvey relief, which does have a lot of bipartisan support. tie that to raising the debt ceiling. as you know, there's congressional republicans, particularly conservatives that don't like that idea. they may want to support hurricane harvey relief but say there should be a clean debt ceiling. does about the it to other things. will republicans end up making a mistake there? >> so i mentioned earlier, i think they fall into line. seems clear this administration is going to tie the debt relief

to hurricane harvey. and i think at the end of the day, if you have democrats supporting it and enough republicans, it will get over the line even if the freedom caucusers decide to vote the other way, this comes down to people. this would be hard to vote against that because of what is on the line in terms of human suffering in texas and louisiana. >> ed: robin, you seem to be singing cumbaya. will the next 30 days be sweetness and light? >> if the democrats do get invited this time, they better show up and not resisting. when it comes to tax reform and immigration reform and infrastructure, we can work on these things. the debt ceiling -- we have to address that issue. we cannot be the party of no, which we hated for seven years. we have to do something. americans are suffering. >> ed: i admire robin's

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>> ed: some survivors from harvey are able to return to their homes. but thousands of them still cannot. the red cross reports that nearly 37,000 people spent the weekend in various shelters in texas. it also reports first responders have saved nearly 17,000 people and 1,500 pets. the numbers not include aid from ordinary people just helping one another, opening their doors to

stranger. rick leventhal live on the louisiana border. wreck, you've been seeing that help day in and day out. >> we have, ed. it's 91 in southeast texas. volunteers are still working in the hot sun. they're giving away food, water and other household goods here at this location staffed by the cowboy church. right behind us here, another location giving away hay and feed and other supplies for horses and livestock. the orange county agri life is running this particular operation. they say all of this is -- has been donated thanks to a facebook post. where's ginger? a facebook post that brought all this stuff out, including ginger that just drove this rig 37 hours from southern california to help out. >> yes. my partner and i just drove from san bernardino, california. we talk about a five-hour layover -- >> what did you bring with you?

>> dog food, cat food, brain contestants, bedding, toilet tries for people. we got a $1,000 gift certificate from a local grocery store. >> god bless you. >> thanks very much. >> we've seen people come in to pick up this stuff for livestock, including a young man who got some hay and feed for horses down the road from us here. we talked to him about the needs that he has. >> it's not like you can go to the store and buy what you need. >> no, sir. not at all. because there's not like no feed stores open right now. so we try to do the best we can to take care of our animals. >> this donation, this hay that is available has to be a huge help. >> yes, sir. it's a blessing. >> the woman running this operation tells me they're giving this stuff away as fast as it's coming in. >> ed: and you can see the heat, the sweat as they work what are

you seeing on the ground in terms of flooding still? >> the sabine river is high. one lane of i-10 was closed because of water on the road. a lot of the roads are still under water. many homes are under water as well. still affecting rescues in this part of southeast texas. >> ed: thanks for the reporting. president trump just spoke with president moon to discuss the latest response to the nuclear test. both leaders underscored the latest provocation posing to the entire world. the two leader as greed to maximum pressure on north korea using all means. president trump approved billions of military weapons and equipment from the u.s. by south korea. that just in from the white house and we'll be right back. sr

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"your world" with lauren simonetti in for neil. >> lauren: thousands of americans picking up the pieces after hurricane harvey leaves a path of destruction behind. these pictures are sobering. now too so are the costs. i'm lauren simonetti in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." accuweather now predicting the damage from this devastating storm nearing $190 billion. that would exceed katrina, the costliest natural disaster in the u.s. history. peter doocy with more. >> before harvey hit and brought a flood zone the size of lake michigan to the lone star state, the costliest natural disasters